A crisis can happen in a moment. Recovery takes leadership.
We empower schools to lead recovery after a crisis so your community can heal.A crisis can disrupt a school in a moment. Recovery takes more than good intentions. It takes calm, clarity, confidence, and a shared system that helps every adult know what to do next.
40+ years. Hundreds of schools. From Thurston and Columbine to 9/11 and Asheville.
No school expects to face a tragedy. But every school deserves to be ready.
Built on four decades of experience, Comprehensive Crisis Response and Recovery Training gives school teams the knowledge, confidence, and practical tools to prepare for crisis, respond with care, and support recovery.
When the Emergency Ends, the Real Work Begins.
Many schools are prepared for the immediate emergency. Far fewer are ready for the grief, communication, difficult decisions, and weeks of recovery that follow.
CMI helps districts build the capacity to move from response to recovery—and toward healing.
Everyone Has a Role. Everyone Needs to Be Ready.
1. Equip every adult
Give teachers and staff shared language, practical guidance, and concrete tools for supporting students through crisis, grief, trauma, and the difficult days that follow.
Through All Staff Preparedness, your district gets concise training videos, optional skill-building activities, and on-demand access that fits the rhythms of a real school year.
2. Guide administrators under pressure
Help school and district leaders respond with steadiness in the moments that matter most.
Administrator Preparedness provides practical guidance, structured learning, and resources leaders can return to before, during, and after difficult events.
3. Facilitate crisis response and recovery
Build and sustain a trained “Flight Team” (crisis response team) that can lead response and recovery across buildings and over time.
Flight Team Training gives districts on-demand modules, supporting materials, and a repeatable way to train, refresh, and onboard team members year after year.
Everything You Need. Ready When You Need It.
This is not just theory, it’s practical. Districts receive videos, manuals, scripts, worksheets, downloads, handouts, and training resources that can be used in professional development, team training, staff onboarding, refreshers, and live planning.
Resources across the CMI system include guidance for classroom response, administrator decision-making, Flight Team facilitation, Safe Rooms, letters and templates, checklists, and crisis response manuals shaped by decades of real-world school work.
Experience You Hope You'll Never Need.
For more than 40 years, Cheri Lovre has helped schools respond to crisis, guide communities through recovery, and create the conditions for healing. Her work includes nationally known tragedies such as Thurston, Columbine, and 9/11, as well as the many crises that never make national news but profoundly affect students, staff, and families.
Cheri has helped schools navigate suicides, sudden deaths, student car crashes, homicides, natural disasters, and other tragedies. She also helps schools respond to the everyday events that may seem smaller from the outside but still require thoughtful, coordinated leadership.
What sets Cheri apart is not only the scale of the events she has experienced, but their range. She understands both the catastrophic event that changes everything overnight and the quieter crisis that leaves an empty desk, a grieving classroom, or a shaken staff searching for a way forward. That depth of experience shapes Comprehensive Crisis Response Training today.
From Expert Knowledge to District-Wide Readiness.
Comprehensive Crisis Response Training helps districts extend expert guidance farther than a single consulting engagement by giving staff ongoing access to training, refreshers, onboarding resources, and practical tools they can use throughout the year.
Instead of trying to recreate crisis knowledge building by building, districts can put one integrated system in place that supports readiness, recovery, and continuity over time.
Free Resource
See What Preparedness Looks Like.
Not ready to begin a district-wide commitment yet? Start with a free sample bundle you can use in your next professional development time.
The Be Ready bundle is designed to fit into existing PD time and gives schools a practical introduction to Cheri’s approach by helping staff begin to explore what it means to prepare all staff, equip administrators, and build a strong Flight Team.
Be Ready Before You Need to Be.
If your district is ready for a deeper, steadier approach to crisis response and recovery, let’s talk.
Bring Cheri Lovre’s experience, practical tools, and integrated training system into your district so your people are better prepared for what comes next.
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